Posts Tagged ‘China’
Here’s John Pomfret discussing why China won’t be a super power anytime soon:
One important nuance we keep forgetting is the sheer size of China’s population: about 1.3 billion, more than four times that of the United States. China should have a big economy. But on a per capita basis, the country isn’t a dragon; it’s [...]
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Tags: China, China Economy, China Superpower, Globalizaton
Here’s a post from last week Harold Meyerson talking American companies fleeing labor friendly China for Vietnam.
Doing business in China is beginning to cost real money. Not that Chinese workers are buying second homes or anything like that: Their average wage is still a little short of a dollar an hour. But so many Chinese [...]
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Tags: China, China Labor Markets, Harold Myerson, International Trade, Vietnam
China and Climate Change
For some more discussion on China here’s Dave Roberts at Gristmill discussing Climate Change and China
In the debate over climate and sustainable development, people often talk about China as though it is some sort of rapacious automaton, blindly dedicated to growing its economy no matter the cost. But while I’ve never been to China, [...]
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Tags: China, Global Warming
Here’s Robert Kagan taking a break from telling us how awesome the Iraq war has been, to instead tell us about the decline of Europe.
For all the focus on the ills of the American economy, few Europeans feel they are about to inherit the world. Germany’s economy is riding high these days, but it is [...]
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Tags: America, BRICs, China, Europe, European Union, International Relations, Robert Kagan, Russia
China and the Dalai Lama Meet
The Washington Post is reporting the Government of China and the Dalai Lama are meeting:
BEIJING, May 5 — Chinese officials and representatives of the Dalai Lama resumed talks Sunday for the first time in nearly a year and agreed to hold another round of discussions at a later date, sources told the New China News [...]
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Tags: 2008 Olympics, China, Dalai Lama, Hu Jintao, Tibet
Here is Nina Hachigian of the California for the Center for American Progress discussing UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s decision to boycott the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
America has so little leverage to influence human rights in China that it is supremely tempting to hold the Games hostage. Yet the only proven methodology [...]
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Tags: 2008 Olympics, Beijing Olympics, Boycott, Boycott of the Olympics, Center for American Progress, China, China Civil Society, China Olympics, Nina Hachigian, Olympics Boycott, Opening Ceremony Boycott, Summer Olympics, Tibet
Last night I was talking about Tibet and my support for boycotting the Olympics, and one of the guys I was talking with to hits me with the “protesters are stupid” line of thought. A summary:
Sure, Tibet’s an important issue, but most of the people protesting don’t know anything about Tibet, couldn’t tell anything about [...]
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Tags: Activism, Activists, China, Olympics, Protests, Tibet
To follow up on something that’s been bugging me, what’s up with people acting like it would be the end of world if there was no Olympics this year? What exactly would be so tragic about not being able to watch a bunch of sports events we don’t watch any time other then during the [...]
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Tags: Add new tag, Beijing Summer Olympics, Boycott of the Olympics, Boycott the Olympics, China, China Olympics, Iraq, Iraq War, Olympics 2008, Tibet
Olympics Boycott 2008
Here is Ezra Klein discussing Democratic Candidates coming to around support a partial boycott of the Chinese Olympics
I can’t figure out what the candidates promising, or sorta-promising, to boycott the Summer Olympics think they’re achieving. On the one hand, concern for human rights violations in China could so concern you that you’d apply enormous [...]
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Tags: Beijing Summer Olympics, China, Ezra Klein, Olympic Boycott, Opening Ceremony Boycott, Summer Olympics, Tibet
So clearly Hillary Clinton has been reading my blog and has come on board with my plan* to boycott the opening ceremony of the Olympics.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday called on President Bush to boycott the opening ceremonies for the Olympic games in Beijing, a fresh sign that politics, not sports, may take [...]
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Tags: Beijing 2008, China, Hillary Clinton, Olympics, Politics, Summer Olympics, Tibet
Human Rights Vs. Handball
Commenter Jared writes about my hope for a European lead boycott of the Summer Olympics
All this does is hurt the athletes. If you want to boycott the country, then boycott the country, but don’t hurt people who have trained their entire lives for this.
At the risk of having a crazed dude at a keyboard moment [...]
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Tags: 2008 Olympics, Beijing, Beijing Olympics, Bejing Summer Olympics, Boycott of the Olympics, China, Economic Sanctions, Summer Olympics, Tibet
More Euro-cott 2008
Via the Washington Times
Something’s cooking on Mount Olympus, and it doesn’t smell like Szechuan Chicken with Chef’s Famous Garlic Sauce. Zeus and the gang are frowning on Beijing.The latest Chinese rape of Tibet is putting second thoughts into the heads of people you might not expect to entertain tough thoughts. “There will be a [...]
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Tags: China, Olympics, Summer Olympics, Tibet, Washington Times
Euro-cott 2008?
So it looks like there is some movement in the direction of a European lead boycott of the Beijing Olympics according to the Associated Press.
The president of the European Parliament said European countries should not rule out threatening China with an Olympic boycott if violence continues in Tibet.
“Beijing must decide itself, it should immediately negotiate [...]
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Tags: 2008 Olympics, Bejing Olympics, China, European Union, Olympics Boycott, Summer Olympics, Tibet
Which “We” Should Boycott
Short list of people that are discussing boycotting the 2008 Olympics because of violence in Tibet
Jack Cafferty
Some Olympians (According to Wikipedia)
One of my co-workers
Before the violence in Tibet I had been a proponent of the idea that a boycott would heedlessly antagonize China. But it’s starting to feel like not boycotting would be a de [...]
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Tags: 2008 Olympics, Boycott of the Olympics, China, Summer Olympics, Tibet, U.S.-Sino Relations, United States of America
Tibet
This is a good post by James Fallows on the recent violence in Tibet and how China is reacting to it. However I don’t think the opening sentence here is supported by the rest of the post. (Emphasis added below)
1) In judging popular reaction in China to this episode, bear in that mind few ordinary [...]
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Tags: 2008 Olympics, Boycott of the Olympics, China, James Fallows, Summer Olympics, Tibet
The World Trade Organization has ruled against for the first time according the associated press.
“It will be instructive to see how China responds,” U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab said in a recent interview. “If, as we hope and expect, China will be found in contravention of its WTO obligations, hopefully that will help those forces [...]
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Tags: Car Imports, China, Chinese Dumplings, Food Contamination, Japan, WTO, WTO Cases
Since When Did Everyone Get Sane
Here is an OP-ED discussing the fairly recent revisions to the GDP data on China and India. In case you missed it:
Newsflash: Roughly 40% of the world is roughly 40% poorer then previously thought. The numbers been wrong for the last 15 years, longer for India.
There has been a lot of discussion about this issue [...]
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Tags: China, GDP Revisions, India, PPP Revision, World Bank
Three Gorges Dam
Here is an article about recent landslides which have killed more 30 people in the three gorges area of China.
It is not clear what caused this particular landslide, but scientists and critics have been warning for years that the reservoir created by the Three Gorges Dam might further destabilize hillsides, causing landslides and possibly even [...]
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Tags: Bambi, China, Environment, Environmentalism, Three Gorges Dam
The New Cold War, Delayed …
To follow up on the China ascendancy post, here is an excellent post, which discusses national security speeches by Joe Biden and Condi Rice that were written shortly before 9-11. Condi’s speech was expected to be focused on the threats of tomorrow as well as not mention terrorism.
As of September 10, 2001 building a national [...]
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Tags: Al Qaeda, China, Condi Rice, Joe Biden, Missile Defense, National Security
So I think it’s a very telling feature of China’s ascendancy that it’s a bit stop and go. One day you read that China has the world’s biggest company and the next day you read that the world’s best investor is selling his stock in the company. People know China is going to be important, [...]
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Tags: Andrew Sullivan, China, Petro-China.
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